5/09/2005

which Beatle wrote which song?

I've been looking for this info for as long as I've been listening to the Beatles:

Please Please Me

  • I Saw Her Standing There McCartney (8) Lennon (2)
  • Please Please Me was Lennon's attempt to write a Roy Orbison song
  • Love Me Do McCartney (7) Lennon (3)
  • Harrison had a black eye at the sessions. The Beatles and Brian Epstein had been attacked at the Cavern by ex-Beatles drummer Pete Best's fans, angry over his firing the month before
  • From Me To You Lennon (5) McCartney (5)
  • Thank You Girl Lennon (5) McCartney (5)
  • She Loves You Lennon (5) McCartney (5)
  • I'll Get You Lennon (5) McCartney (5)


    With The Beatles

  • I Wanna Be Your Man McCartney (7) Lennon (3)
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand Lennon (5) McCartney (5)
  • Bob Dylan thought there was a reference to marijuana in I Want To Hold Your Hand. Dylan misinterpreted the line "I can't hide" for "I get high"
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand brought the Beatles into the black community
  • This Boy Lennon (10)


    A Hard Day's Night

  • Lennon: "The only reason Paul sang on 'Hard Day's Night' was because I couldn't reach the notes."
  • I Should Have Known Better Lennon (10)
  • If I Fell Lennon (10)
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You Lennon (10)
  • Lennon: "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You was written for George to give him a piece of the action...I couldn'ta sung it."
  • And I Love Her McCartney (6.5) Lennon (3.5)
  • Tell Me Why Lennon (10)
  • Can't Buy Me Love McCartney (9) Lennon (1)
  • Lennon called I'll Be Back and "early favourite"


    Beatles For Sale

  • Baby's In Black McCartney (5) Lennon (5)
  • Eight Days A Week McCartney (7) Lennon (3)
  • Every Little Thing McCartney (9) Lennon (1)
  • I'm Down McCartney (9) Lennon (1)


    Help!

  • The Beatles hated the U.S. repackaging of their albums
  • Help! Lennon (9) McCartney (1)
  • The Beatles quickened the tempo of Help! to make the song more commercial, which Lennon later regretted
  • Lennon on You've Got To Hide Your Love Away: "That's me in my Dylan period..."
  • Lennon on Yesterday: "Wow, that was a good 'un." "Well done. Beautiful - and I never wished I'd written it."
  • Day Tripper Lennon (8) McCartney (2)
  • We Can Work It Out McCartney (7) Lennon (3)


    Rubber Soul

  • Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys: "I was sitting around a table with friends, smoking a joint, when we heard Rubber Soul for the first time; and i'm smoking and i'm getting high and the album blew my mind because it was a whole album with all good stuff! It flipped me out so much, I said, 'I'm gonna try that, where a whole album becomes gas.'"

    He then wrote the songs for the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, which in turn impressed McCartney and spurred him to help create Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Paul was always criticising Geroge's guitar playing during the sessions and Paul would end up playing the solo himself.
  • Drive My Car McCartney (7) Lennon (3)
  • Norwegian Wood Lennon (8) McCartney (2)
  • The Word Lennon (6) McCartney (4)
  • Michelle McCartney (7) Lennon (3)
  • What Goes On Lennon (6) McCartney (2) Starr (2)
  • In My Life Lennon (6.5) McCartney (3.5)
  • In My Life is one of two songs which Lennon and McCartney significantly disputed authorship. ("Eleanor Rigby" is the other.) Lennon claimed he wrote the song with some help from McCartney. Paul said he wrote the music for the song
  • In My Life was one of Harrison's favourite Lennon-McCartney compositions
  • Wait Lennon (5) McCartney (5)
  • Paperback Writer McCartney (8) Lennon (2)


    Revolver

  • Taxman Harrison (9) Lennon (1)
  • Lennon on Here, There And Everywhere: "This was a great one of his." "One of my favourite songs of the Beatles."
  • Yellow Submarine McCartney (8) Lennon (2)
  • Doctor Robert Lennon (7.5) McCartney (2.5)
  • Penny Lane McCartney (8) Lennon (2)


    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

  • With A Little Help From My Friend McCartney (7.5) Lennon (2.5)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Lennon (8) McCartney (3)
  • Getting Better McCartney (6.5) Lennon (3.5)
  • She's Leaving Home McCartney (6.5) Lennon (3.5)
  • When I'm Sixty-Four McCartney (8.5) Lennon (1.5)
  • A Day In The Life Lennon (6) McCartney (4)
  • A Day In The Life is one of Julian Lennon's favourites
  • Baby You're A Rich Man Lennon (5) McCartney (5)


    Magical Mystery tour

  • Magical Mystery Tour McCartney (9) Lennon (1)
  • Flying Lennon (2.5) McCartney (2.5) Harrison (2.5) Starr (2.5)


    Lennon on Hey Jude: "That's his best song."


    The White Album

  • Dear Prudence is one of Julian Lennon's favourites
  • The other Beatles became upset over doing so much work on McCartney's song, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  • Lennon hated Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  • Lennon on Happiness Is A Warm Gun: "I consider it one of my best..."
  • McCartney on Happiness Is A Warm Gun: "I think this is my favourite on The Beatles album."
  • Harrison named Happiness Is A Warm Gun as one of his favourites on the album
  • Lennon on Why Don't We Do It In The Road?: "Paul [wrote it] - one of his best."
  • Birthday McCartney (7) Lennon (3)
  • Sexy Sadie is one of Julian Lennon's favourites
  • In Sexy Sadie, Lennon's original lyric was more directly pointed at the Maharishi and actually named him but Lennon decided to be more subtle when he recorded the song
  • Good Night Lennon (10)


    Let It Be

  • Two Of Us McCartney (10)
  • Lennon on Across The Universe: "This was one of my favorite songs..." "One of my best songs..."
  • Dig It Lennon (2.5) McCartney (2.5) Harrison (2.5) Starr (2.5)
  • I've Got A Feeling Lennon (5) McCartney (5)
  • Lennon on Get Back: "That's a better version of 'Lady Madonna'. You know, a potboiler rewrite....I think there's some underlying thing about Yoko in there....You know, 'Get back to where you once belong': Every time he sang the line in the studio, he'd look at Yoko."


    Abbey Road

  • George Martin considers Abbey Road his favorite Beatles album
  • McCartney on the medley on the album, "We did it this way because both John and I had a number of songs which were great as they were but which we'd never finished."
  • Starr on Abbey Road: "...I love the second side of Abbey Road, where it's all connected and disconnected. No one wanted to finish those songs, so we put them all together and it worked. I think that piece of that album is some of our finest work."
  • Lennon on Abbey Road: "I liked the A side, but I never liked that sort of pop opera on the other side. I think it's just junk because it was just bits of songs thrown together."
  • Lennon on Come Together: "It was a funky record - it's one of my favorite Beatle tracks."
  • Lennon on Maxwell's Silver Hammer: "I hate it. 'Cuz all I remember is the track - he made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was and it never could've been."
  • Lennon on The End: "...He had a line in it - 'The love you take is equal to the love you make' - which again proves that if he wants to, he can think."
  • Her Majesty was originally meant to be placed in the middle of the album's medley, between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam."

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